SWEETS RATIONS END IN APRIL: EMPIRE FOOD GIFTS
(10 a.m.) LONDON,. Feb. 21. The Minister of Food, Mr. J. Strachey, announced in the House of Commons that sweets rationing would end on April 24. Mr. Strachey. in a statement to the House of Commons, said that in the three years ended December 31. 1948, 54.000 tons of gift food had been received from the Commonwealth and colonies for distribution to the people most in need. Since 1939 more than 50,000,000 gift food parcels had come direct to individuals through the post from the Commonwealth and Colonies. Mr. Strachey added that 4570 ,501 b. tins of cooking fat had been received under the Commonwealth gift food scheme from the National Patriotic Fund of New Zealand. ,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22877, 22 February 1949, Page 7
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124SWEETS RATIONS END IN APRIL: EMPIRE FOOD GIFTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22877, 22 February 1949, Page 7
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